Unleashing Employees’ Power to Innovate: A Multilevel Model
Audenaert, Mieke Vanderstraeten, Alex Decramer, Adelien
Audenaert, Mieke
Vanderstraeten, Alex
Decramer, Adelien
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Conference Proceeding
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2013-01
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Academy of Management Proceedings
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2013
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1
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12197
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12197
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Abstract
Integrating employment relationships, psychological empowerment, and individual innovation theory, this study develops a multilevel conceptual model linking employment relationships with individual innovation. To test this model, we use survey data on 82 job functions and 934 employees from a large Flemish service organization. The results highlight the role of variables at the job level. The first job-level context variable concerns employment relationships. The findings show that employment relationships with high job requirements and/or offered inducements affect psychological empowerment, which in turn influences individual innovation. The second job-level context variable concerns job complexity. The findings show that job complexity operates as a cross-level moderator of the link between psychological empowerment and individual innovation. These findings underscore recent claims that multilevel linkages and the job-level context matter in explaining individual innovation in service organizations.
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Individual Innovation, Psychological empowerment, Employment Relationships